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We passed the minimum test of history
For the past two years, I’ve heard various historical comparisons to the second Trump administration. To my colleague who grew up in Eastern Europe, it was to 20th century European fascism. To more than one colleague from Latin America, dictatorships of South American from the 1970s and 1980s.
The Supreme Court is broken
I write this from Seoul, at the end of a week-long stay that began for me with the International Conference on Education Research and is ending with reading the news that the U.S. Supreme Court has granted yet another emergency order to relieve the Trump administration of the obligations under the law, in this case removing a […]
The Guano Caucus
Guano Point sits 75 miles north of Kingman, Arizona, on the southern lip of the Western Grand Canyon, and on it perches the remnants of a tramway system, a launching point for failed dreams and a missing 99,000 tons of guano. We’ll return in a bit to the missing guano. As Roger Smith tells the […]
Bulwer Lytton of the Caliche
“The corporate communist globalist satanic Uniparty is the faction our founders warned us about,” Arizona Senator Wendy Rogers tweeted August 4. It’s the type of unhinged comment we now expect from Sen. Rogers, but it would also make a great first sentence for a spy thriller— okay, a hilariously-awful one. Or take the grandstanding of […]
More candidate education platforming
I have some thoughts about the K-12 policy position released by Elizabeth Warren’s campaign on Monday. The big story told in most reporting is about the quadrupling of federal aid to local schools under Title I, but I have some other observations: